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Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth With Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals and Zami – A New Spelling Of My Name

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Living as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Continue reading

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#VoteLikeAMadre: J.Lo Just Shared a Makeup-Free Selfie for an Important Cause: #VoteLikeAMother

J.Lo Just Shared a Makeup-Free Selfie for an Important Cause The pop star helped kick off the new #VoteLikeAMadre campaign. Source: HarpersBazaar By Bianca Betancourt Chelsea GuglielminoGetty Images Jennifer Lopez shared a fresh-faced selfie to social media to kick off … Continue reading

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Beyond the Pale #ASMSG

C. Michelle McCarthy, award winning author of “The Jewel Box“, moves to a trailer park in, “Beyond the Pale.” ~ At odds with her mother long before her father’s fatal automobile accident left them blaming each other, pregnant teen Abbie … Continue reading

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Welsh Language passes the identity test: Learning Two Languages At The Same Time

Adran Ddrama ar y ffordd adref o G’dydd #joiojoiojoio yn Theatr Sherman. Sioe wych Frantic Assembly #beautifulburnout twitter.com/bryntawe/statu… — Ysgol Bryn Tawe (@bryntawe) October 24, 2012 Take a look at pics taken of @bryntawe pupils hard at work at a … Continue reading

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The #Mother #Tongue in the Chilean EFL Classroom: How We Learn English [Kindle Edition]

The Mother Tongue in the Chilean EFL Classroom: How We Learn English [Kindle Edition] Book Description Publication Date: September 21, 2012 The Mother Tongue Taboo (speak only English in the classroom) addresses all the “Taboo Topics”: Monolingual Fallacy, Native Speaker … Continue reading

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Change The World – Just An Empty Phrase? Let’s Change The World!

How many times have you read or heard the phrase, “Change the World”? A thousand? A hundred-thousand? A million? A billion? Have we used it so much, over and over again, that there is no common understanding anymore of what … Continue reading

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